Quotes About Introspection

I stopped asking myself questions like what the value of my stock was and started asking more fundamental questions of life and death.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

I had been used to chatter. To sit quietly did not come easy. However, with time and patience, I was learning.

Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.

I pity the man who can't cry.

Sometimes there are no victims to save, and nothing is broken that should be fixed.

I didn't know the exact trajectory of my breakdown, but I did know that I'd become weak, holding onto wildness, cherishing the idea of it the way you blow a dying fire.

She thinks in wild gardens, and his thoughts are espaliered into an introduction with a thesis, then supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion. She

One can't merely content oneself with identifying proximate causes; one also has to ask about ultimate causes.

To really live a life in search of knowledge, you must admit when you are wrong.

I had acquaintances...but then they'd always start trying to get away, like they'd turned over some stone in my personality and found a poisonous snake.

I wished I could imagine my life five years later, without me in it.

Seekers are also often calm and quiet and have a natural inclination to being alone, and to working on their own. They

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

To each our own Hamlet.

I am by turns a petulant adolescent and a mature man, a melancholy loner and a wit telling actors their trade. I cannot decide whether I'm a philosopher or a moping teenager, a poet or a murderer, a procrastinator or a man of action. I might be truly mad or sane pretending to be mad or even mad pretending to be sane.

Can I ask why? Why what? Why you're something you're not? We're all something we're not, he said. Every one of us is stuck between the person we want to be and the person we can be and there doesn't have to be a why. All things have to do is feel right.

So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?

You a brave person?' 'I don't know.' 'You'll find out soon enough.

Hamlet would worry about having nothing to worry about if he had nothing to worry about

The people to listen to are the ones who don't say very much

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are generally disappointed when they figure it out.

You can lose yourself in a book, but you find yourself in Poetry